bollocks. there is profound unity and direction in US leadership, and has been for years -- it's all written by the Heritage Foundation and funded by a few oil and tech billionaires.
it's been like that since before George W Bush was lock-step with Fox News and a GOP led Congress.
the only difference is in 2025 the billionaires funding these things are as foreign as they are domistic
Citation very much needed ;) Even our current voting systems are far from being the best we can come up with in term of fairness. The population most certainly wants to remain in an environment humans can comfortably live in, somehow that's not what our democracies are selecting for these days.
In fairness while people do obviously want them they also want all the current conveniences of modern life and more. Completely off the cuff but I'm pretty sure the sum of those desires vastly dwarfs concern over longer term environmental effects. Essentially I think the average joe prioritizes their job and lifestyle over nagging climate concerns just like the gov does.
Yet people actively decided as they did, while almost fully knowing where it leads. It could also have been worse given progressing senility, attempt to overthrow government etc. We are not in a new territory after all, just continuation. Tariffs are new mexican wall.
At least accept how your nation thinks on average, no weaseling around simple fact of today's reality.
I don't know what kind of citation you expect. It's clear that political participation was never more direct and organized than now in the age of social media. The fools and resentful who always were numerous have found a way to unite and bypass the establishment and educational filters which were effectively restraining politics before. All the cowards, short termists, wannabe dictators, conspiracists and anti-intellectualists who are being elected squarely and fairly represent the people who voted for them.
This uh valiant defense of China misses my point entirely. People in democracies have no excuse hiding their personal responsibility behind flawed leadership.
A degree of consensus and unity in leadership which is foreign to current American culture.
bollocks. there is profound unity and direction in US leadership, and has been for years -- it's all written by the Heritage Foundation and funded by a few oil and tech billionaires.
it's been like that since before George W Bush was lock-step with Fox News and a GOP led Congress.
the only difference is in 2025 the billionaires funding these things are as foreign as they are domistic
The leadership in democracy does what the population wants, even more so in the past couple decades.
Citation very much needed ;) Even our current voting systems are far from being the best we can come up with in term of fairness. The population most certainly wants to remain in an environment humans can comfortably live in, somehow that's not what our democracies are selecting for these days.
In fairness while people do obviously want them they also want all the current conveniences of modern life and more. Completely off the cuff but I'm pretty sure the sum of those desires vastly dwarfs concern over longer term environmental effects. Essentially I think the average joe prioritizes their job and lifestyle over nagging climate concerns just like the gov does.
Yet people actively decided as they did, while almost fully knowing where it leads. It could also have been worse given progressing senility, attempt to overthrow government etc. We are not in a new territory after all, just continuation. Tariffs are new mexican wall.
At least accept how your nation thinks on average, no weaseling around simple fact of today's reality.
I don't know what kind of citation you expect. It's clear that political participation was never more direct and organized than now in the age of social media. The fools and resentful who always were numerous have found a way to unite and bypass the establishment and educational filters which were effectively restraining politics before. All the cowards, short termists, wannabe dictators, conspiracists and anti-intellectualists who are being elected squarely and fairly represent the people who voted for them.
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Yet somehow the desires of the population is fulfilled to a higher degree in authoritarian China than in the beacon of democracy USA.
This uh valiant defense of China misses my point entirely. People in democracies have no excuse hiding their personal responsibility behind flawed leadership.
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